Prof. Dr. Mark Ladd
Head of Division and Coordinator of the Research Topic Imaging and Radiooncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)
Date/Time: Tuesday, 27 June 2025, 13:30 pm
Place: SC106 National Magnetic Resonance Research Center Seminar Room
“The Evolution of MR Hardware: How Far Have We Come?”
Bio:
Mark Ladd is currently Professor at Heidelberg University and Head of Medical Physics in Radiology at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg. He is also affiliated as a Principal Investigator of the Erwin L. Hahn Institute for MRI at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Mark grew up in the USA and studied electrical engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Stanford University, California, where he received a Bachelor of Science in 1989 and a Master of Science in 1991, respectively. While working in the medical imaging industry for General Electric, he completed his PhD at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) in 1998. In 2004, he was appointed professor at the University of Duisburg-Essen in Essen, where he started his research with high magnetic fields for MR imaging. In 2013, he accepted a new appointment at Heidelberg University. His research focuses on methodological advances in MR imaging and spectroscopy, including imaging at ultra-high magnetic fields, radiofrequency hardware, parallel transmission, MRI safety, and magnetic resonance-guided radiotherapy. He is author or co-author of more than 350 scientific articles involving the application and improvement of MR technology. For his work with MRI at 7 Tesla, he received an ERC Advanced Grant in 2012 for research focusing on the manipulation and safety of radiofrequency fields using parallel transmission and was a finalist for the German President’s Award for Innovation in Science and Technology (Deutscher Zukunftspreis) in 2019 for contributions to translating 7 Tesla MRI into a medical device for clinical usage. In 2021 he was elected a Senior Fellow of the International Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, and in 2024 he was awarded the Glocker Medal by the German Society for Medical Physics (DGMP).